Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-17

MARITAL INTRIGUEs,
sly correspondence, fictitious names
given at postofice windows, c!andestine
meeting in parks, and at ferry gates, and
in hotel parlors, and coDjugal peri aries
are among the dsmnable results. When
8 woman, young or old, gets her head
thoroughly stuffed with the modern novel
she is in appalling peril. But some one
will say: ."Phe heroes are so adroitly
knavish, and the persons so bewitchingly
untrue, and the turn Of the story 80 ex-
| q1isite, and all the characters so enrap-
turing, cannot quit them" My brother,
my sister, you can find styles of htera.
ture just as charming that will elevate
and purify, and ennoole, and Christian
| ize while they please. The devil does
not own all the honey. There is q wealth
of good books coming forth from our pub
fishing houses that leaves no excuse for
the choice OF that which is debaucning to
body, mind and soul. Go to some intel
ligent men or women, and ask for list OF
books that will be strengthening to your
mental and moral condition. Life is so
short and your time for improvement so
abbreviated, that you cannot afford to fill
up with husks, and cinders and debris.
In the interstices of business that young
man Is reading that which will prepare
him to be q merchant prince, and that
young woman is filing her mind with an
intelligence that viii yet either make her
the chief attraction Of good mans home
or give her en- independence of character
that will qualify her to build her own
home and maintain it in q happiness that
requires no augmentation from any of our
rougher sex. That young man or young
woman can by the right literary and N oral
Improvement Of the spare ten minutes
here or there in every day, rise head and
shoulders in prosperity, and character,
and influence above the loungers who
read nothing or read that which bedwarfs.
See oil the forests of good American
literature dripping with honey. Why
pick up the honey combs that have in
them
THE FIERY BEES
which will sting you with an eternal
poison while you taste it? One book may
for you or me decide everything for this
world or the next. 1t was a turning
point with me when in Wynkoop's book
store, Syracuse, one day l picked up a
booked called "The Beauties of Ruskin."
It was only book of extracts but it was
all pure honey, ana 1 was not satisfied
until l had purchased all his works, st
that time expensive beyond an easy Ca
pacity to own them, and what a heaven I
went through in reading his "Seven
Lamps of Architecture" and his "Slones
OF Venice" it is impossible for me to de-
scribe except by saying that it gave me q
rapture for good books, and an everlast-
ing disgust for decripit or immoral books
that will last me while my immortal soul
lasts. All around the church and the
world to-day there are busy hives of
intelligence occupied by authors and au-
thoresses from whose pens drip cistilla-
ton which is the very nectar of heaven,
and why will you thrust your rod of in
quisitiveness into the beautiful sacchar-
inc of perdition?
Stimulating liquids also come into the
category of temptations delicious but
beautiful. You say: 81 cannot bear the
taste of Intoxicating liquor, and how any
man can like it is to me an amazement."
Well then, it is no credit to you that you
do not take it. Do not brag about your
total abstinence, because it is not from
any principle that you reject alcoholism,
but for the same reason that you reject
certain styles of food-you simply don't
like the taste of them. utmultitudes of
people have q natural fondness for all
kinds of intoXicant. They like it so much
that it makes them
SMACK THEIR LIPSs
to look at il. They are dyspeptic, and
they take it to sid digestion; or they are
annoyed by insomnia, and they. take it to
fproduce sleep; or they are troubled, and
they take it to make them obllvious; or
they feel good, and they must celebrate
their hilarity. They begin with mint
juIip sucked through two strsws on the
Long Branch piazza, and end N the
ditch, taking from a Jug liquid half
kerosene and half whisky. They not only
like it, but it is an all coDsum ng passion
of body, mind and soul, and after while
have it they will, though one wine glass
of it should cost the temporal and eternal
destruction Of themselves, aud all their
families, and the whole human race, They
would say: 81 am sorry it is going to
cost me, and my family, and all the
worlds population so very much, but
here it. goes to my lips, and now let it
roll over my parched tongue aud down
my heated throat, the sweetest, the
most inspiring, the most rapturous thing
that ever thrilled mortal or immortal 1"
To cure the habit before it comes to
it's last stages, various plans were tried
in olden times. This plan was recon-
mended in the books: When a man
wanted to reform he put shot or bullets
into the cup or glass of strong dr1nk-one
additional shot or bullet each day, that
displaced so much liquor. Bullet after
bullet added day by day, of course the
liquor became less and less until the bull
lets would entirely fill up the glass and
there was no room for the liquid, and by
that time it was said the inebriate would
be cured. Whether any one ever was
cured in that way I know not, but by
long experiment ii is found that the only
way is to stop short of, and when man
does that he needs God to help him. And
there have beef more cases tan you can
count when GodIhas SO helped the man
that he quit forever, and l could count a
score Of them here to- day, some of them
pillars in the house of GOD.
One would suppose that men would
| take warning from some of the
OMNIBUS NAMES
given to intoxIcants, and stand Off from
the devastating influence. You have
noticed, for instance that some of the res
taurants are called "The Shades" typical
of the fact that it puts mans reputation
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